Where to buy bread cakes chocolates ice cream Lisbon

This is pastéis de nata heaven. They are baked and prepared before your eyes, a bell announcing each new batch that comes out of the oven. You can admire them in their window waiting to be eaten. A real treat. Perfect in the morning before attacking your day of visit, for a little snack between two visits in Baixa, or between two bars in the evening. If you don't have time to go to the Belém factory, this is the place to try this Portuguese specialty! Don't be afraid of the queue, it goes very quickly.

Real Italian ice in Lisbon: this glacier was created and is managed by Italians. Building on its success, Nannarella moved from 68 to 64 on the street to get more space. The list of flavours is not very long, but the essentials are there like vanilla, chocolate or hazelnut (avela). There are also more surprising flavours such as basil. In the summer, you will often see a long line in front of the store. At the old address, a pizza corner has opened where you can buy by weight one of the best pizzas in Lisbon.

The legendary Cascais ice cream parlour, founded in 1949, with factories in São João do Estoril and Carcavelos (more recent), the regular supplier to the crowned heads, moved to the heart of the city in 2010. Facing the Armazéns in Chiado (shopping center), the setting is like something out of a scene from the movie Clockwork Orange or the TV series The Prisoner. It offers you its tasty seasonal flavors, among them: currant(groselha) or green corn(milho verde) but also more classic flavors for those who are not reckless.

An address just a few steps from the big traffic circle of Marquês de Pombal, where many Lisboners go to work. This huge pastelaria is the meeting place of the dynamic executives of the neighborhood, convinced by the fast and efficient service, as well as by the large choice of sandwiches and typical daily dishes (soups, omelets...). They say that their pastel de nata is awarded several years in a row (and therefore to be tested). There is also a small and pleasant terrace. For the price and the area, nothing to complain about: it's practical and economical

To rediscover the atmosphere of the old chromos: charming arched room, lined with Art Nouveau azulejos and columns. In front of the entrance, a panel announces "The Bread Cathedral". Mass is said! In this house listed in the impressive municipal heritage list, the breads are really excellent, the pastries deliciously sweet and tempting. The old counter has seen generations of regulars pass by and still welcomes many fans in an atmosphere that has nothing religious about it!

Behind this store is the work of two brothers - Darchite and Jimite. For three years, they worked on the perfect recipe for vegan doughnut dough and ice cream to create, in 2019, Scoop n Dough. While the team started small, today more than 24 people are working to serve you the best doughnuts in town. You'll find the classics with simple frosting but also ultra original recipes like chocolate pie, crumble or tiramisu, and we're not even talking about their ice cream!

Claudio Corallo's boutique-laboratory, an Italian agronomist and a great experimenter with an ecological sensibility, specializes in 100% natural chocolate and high quality coffee, both from São Tomé and Príncipe, an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean and Portugal's smallest former colony. In her store, you will find good products presented in different forms: roasted beans, various bars, coffee beans covered with chocolate or cocoa sorbet.

Next to Martim Moniz at the beginning of the Mouraria, you enter a small alley that does not really inspire confidence, but at the end a small hidden treasure for the gourmets. Here, everything is homemade, and before your eyes, it is still one of the few pastry shops where you can see the workshop. A pasteleria that is more than 60 years old, a family house where the ladies of the neighborhood come to reassure themselves with a little sweetness... To taste, the specialty of the Mouraria, a pastel with almond cream and feijão. Typical and popular. To test for the curious ones!

We had heard that it was one of the best chocolate cakes in Lisbon. Sofia, the creator of the recipe, developed this cake over the course of the tests, with her entourage as a critical opinion. She keeps the recipe for this little wonder secret. A kind of dark chocolate fondant, with its ganache and mousse, you literally melt! Only one large table in the middle to enjoy this little marvel gently. If you don't have time to stop by LX Factory, they have another address in the centre of Lisbon.

A word of advice to gourmets: this is a Portuguese ice-cream factory, with more than 30 flavours. A stone's throw from the Estrela garden, you can enjoy sorbets and ice creams: Belgian chocolate, passion fruit tart or basil lemon, nata pastel, cinnamon and honey. You will always be informed if the ice contains gluten, eggs or lactose. You can also eat good pancakes and waffles with ice cream, jam or nutella. Perfect for a break in the park.

For several decades, it was a tea and coffee shop. A Carioca, founded in 1936 by Isidoro Teixeira, has given way to a store selling vegan pastéis de nata (i.e. without any animal products). However, the historic store has not disappeared completely, as you can still buy its coffee, or even enjoy it directly with a good pastel de nata. The decoration has also been preserved as it was. At night, you can admire its colorful, vintage neon facade, which gives it a real cachet.

Castro, created in 2019, celebrates the essential pastel de nata, paying homage to centuries of history and taste. With three workshops open to the public, including two in Lisbon and one in Porto, it is dedicated exclusively to making this pastry. Here, you can buy pasteis de nata, taste them at the counter or take them away. The spaces are designed to create a sophisticated atmosphere and a unique sensory experience. What's more, you can watch the entire production process being carried out by hand.

Juliana's passion for pastry-making began at the age of 12. She made it her profession and trained with the best. While in confinement, she set up her own project, "Barü", which later took on its own name: a patisserie all her own, where she serves up cakes as beautiful as they are delicious. She mixes flavors and, above all, uses her favorite ingredients, such as flowers and essential oils. New sweets to discover every week.

Housed in a building where you can admire Querubim Lapa's sublime Art Deco azulejos, this patisserie comes straight from Alcobaça. It specializes in traditional doces conventuais , sweets made from egg yolks left over from the production of hosts. It's amazing how, with the same base of eggs and sugar, you can have such a variety of cakes. It's hard to choose from among those on display in Alcôa's showcases. We warn you, though, that they're very sweet, so not to everyone's taste.